Middle Eastern Studies articles from July 2003

Middle Eastern Studies archives from July 2003

The United States, Iran and Operation 'Ajax': inverting interpretative orthodoxy.
July 1, 2003... In August 1953 American agents covertly assisted a coup to depose the Iranian Prime Minister, Muhammad Mosadeq, and paved the way for his country to become a US client state under the rule of the Shah. This marked the climax of over three years...

The centrist stream in Egypt and its role in the public discourse surrounding the shaping of the country's cultural identity.
July 1, 2003... One of the most contentious issues on the Egyptian public agenda today is the way in which the country strives to cope with the fundamentalist challenge. In an historical context, this struggle can perhaps be deemed simply another round in the...

Decline in European trade in the Sudan from the mid-nineteenth century.
July 1, 2003... The purpose of this article is to examine and analyse a document from the Egyptian archive of Dar al-Wartha'iq al-Qawmiyya in Cairo, a report on European trade in the Sudan dated July 1865 and written by F.B. Garnier, dragoman of the French...

Sudan and Egypt: the swing of the pendulum (1989-2001).
July 1, 2003... Since Sudan gained independence in 1956 and even before, relations with its powerful neighbour Egypt oscillated between the extremes of enmity and affinity. Most conspicuously, it was during the rule of President Ja'far Muhammad al-Numayri...

Official external debt: perspectives from the experiences of Arab countries.
July 1, 2003... This study focuses on Arab debt profiles from 1975 to 1990, which show the predominance of official bilateral debt. Such debt is poorly addressed by existing economic theories, which have been biased towards portraying commercial lending. It is...

Economic co-operation between India and the United Arab Emirates in the 1990s.
July 1, 2003... India is a vast country of economic opportunities. With a population of about 1 billion, (1) the population and labour force are second only to China's. The labour force is estimated to be 450 million. It has a large resource base and a large...

Transnational actors in a time crisis: the involvement of American Jews in Israel-United States relations, 1956-57.
July 1, 2003... As an American Jew I have a dual obligation but not a double loyalty... I have an obligation to my country in any way I can... I have an obligation to my people from which I stem... The role of an American Jewish leader is to try to keep...

The Palestinian press and the general strike, April-October 1936: Filastin as a case study.
July 1, 2003... During the first half of the 1930s, the Palestinian national movement confronted two main dilemmas. The first was that Britain did not intend to grant them what it had granted other Arab nations under its governance (i.e., the Egyptians and the...

The Turkish official military histories of the First World War: a bibliographic essay.
July 1, 2003... The Turkish General Staff (TGS) has an active historical division that has published a 27-volume official military history series concerning the Ottoman Army's participation in the First World War. This essay outlines the scope of this...

Small Nations and Great Powers. A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... by Svante E. Cornell. Caucasus World Series. London: Curzon, 2001. Pp.480, bibliography, index, maps. 50.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth), ISBN 0-7007-1162-7. The dissolution of the USSR rocketed the Caucasus from the anonymity of a Soviet...

All Honourable Men: the Social Origins of War in Lebanon.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... by Michael Johnson. Oxford and London: Centre for Lebanese Studies and I.B. Tauris, 2001. Pp.xviii + 259, bibliography, index. 29.50 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN1-86064-715-4. A number of arguments have been put forward to explain the...

Nasser's Egypt, Arab Nationalism, and the United Arab Republic.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... by James Jankowski. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. Pp.235, bibliography, index. 41.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-58826-034-8. More than fifty years have passed since the Free Officers seized power in Egypt on 23 July 1952. The...

Women in Muslim Family Law.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... by John L. Esposito and Nathana J. DeLong-Bas, second edition, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001. Pp.xv+195, bibliography, index. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8156-2908-7. Women in Muslim Family Law is a new and updated edition of the...

Arabic Literature: an Overview.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... by Pierre Cachia. London: Routledge, 2002. Pp.xiv + 194 index. 45.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN 0-7007-1725-0. Older surveys of Arabic literature in the English language have tended to be coloured by their authors' immersion at school...

Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp.xv + 283, bibliography, index. 45.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN 0-691-00497-8. This is an ambitious book. It proposes to study the politico-cultural discourse...

Allah's Mountains: Politics and War in the Russian Caucasus.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... by Sebastian Smith. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998. Pp.xvi + 288, select bibliography, index, maps. 19.95 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN 1-86064-215-2. A great many books have been published both on the contemporary, post-Soviet...

Religion and Conflict in Sudan: Papers from an International Conference at Yale, May 1999.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... edited by Yusuf Fadl Hasan and Richard Gray (Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2002). Pp.208, index. Price not given (paper). ISBN 9966-21-831-9. This volume on religion and conflict in Sudan comprises contributions by 14 scholars,...